Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this amazing public art installation right around the corner from Happier Headquarters. Our CEO Nataly happened to be on a photo shoot when she passed by this new garden space.
Titled Bright Side of the Road this "guerrilla gardening" is a part of Fort Point's Art Walk and was created by artists Michael Moss and Claudia Ravaschiere.
French artist Thomas Lamadieu said, "My artistic aim is to show a different perception of urban architecture and the everyday environment around us, what we can construct with a boundless imagination".
Lamadieu photographs architectural cityscapes and imagines characters within the space of the open sky. It reminds me of when I was a kid and we were told to look up the sky to see the characters appearing in the shapes of the clouds.
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This is an amazing body of photographic work done with one of my favorite sea creatures, jellyfish! Aaron Ansarov of South Florida photographs living Portuguese man o’ war that he finds on the shore.
I had no idea that these creatures were actually a colonial organism (multiple beings living in harmony and sharing one stomach). It was this finding that inspired Ansarov to mirror his prints to create new patterns showing multiplicity. The colors and textures are absolutely stunning.
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Graphic designer dad David LaFerriere sure makes his kids happy. Every day in their lunch boxes they get a new sandwich bag illustration. LaFerriere has created over 1000 of these playful drawings and documents them using Flickr. Check out the entire set here. What a cool dad.
"I would like to reveal the meaning of who we are and what we are as neighbors to each other."
Artist Bohyun Yoon's project entitled "Neighbors" started with portraits he took of the members of his community in Philadelphia. Yoon photographed of all the diverse people he saw when moving to this city and transferred the prints in monotone color to glass plates.
"Where Wordsworth is a poet of words, Roadsworth is a poet of roads." Street artist Roadsworth takes to the streets of Montreal to fight against the "mundaneness of the urban landscape" and he does so with his creative conversions of city streets and infrastructures. What I love about his work is that he uses existing lines and structures to create new visuals, even shadows are used (see the caged tiger image bottom left).
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Built by the Los Angeles based creative studio, We Are Matik, this public art installation was created to promote happiness. Meet “Smile-Bot”, a happy, interactive bot that wants to spread smiles.
Peek through the portals of the bot's wooden shell and you will see a colorful world inside. Smile and the bot will grow happier, changing color and playing music the more smiles he collects.
As businesses increasingly prioritize good design and as we start demanding it in our daily lives, more and more technology companies will face tensions over how to incorporate design principles without compromising on the engineering goals that can also make or break a product or service. It's a challenge that every company handles differently, and in many cases, one group wins out at the expense of another's ideals.
